Lorna Dee Cervantes is the publisher of the literary journal Mango and the founder of a small press of the same name. She is a former associate professor of English at the University of Colorado–Boulder and the author of Drive, Emplumada, and From the Cables of Genocide. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Book Award, the Patterson Poetry Prize, and the International Latino Book Award. She lives in San Francisco, California.
Here begins the timeless, universal journey on the roller coaster
of love's triumphs and travails with Cervantes as our perceptive
and exuberant guide. One would have to be as dead as the skeletons
on the cover of the book not to feel moved by Cervantes' energy and
eloquence. [...] 100 words, 100 times in the interest of cracking
love's inscrutable code. That's about right. Each poem is a new
chance, a new escape or risk into uncharted adventures to fall in
love, to proclaim a love, to lick our wounds over its inevitable
disgraces, or to try again to feel." —Yvette
Benavides, San Antonio Express-News
"Cynics beware: this book will stir sensual memories, and make even
the most jaded reader smile. . . . [Cervantes'] voice is direct and
natural, like the voice of a friend. . . . Ciento is a book to
cherish. Give it to your seventeen-year-old student who just fell
in love, or to your grandparents, married forty years. Or when in
doubt yourself about love, go to these pages. You will find a
worthy voice who speaks to you." —Rain Taxi
"In Lorna Dee Cervantes's latest poetry collection, Ciento: 100
100-Word Love Poems, all the poems are composed of one hundred
words, words that, as the Spanish title suggests, should make you
feel a burst of emotion. . . . With these poems, we get to know a
little bit more about Cervantes's poetic sensibility, her poetic
approach, and her understanding of love and desire. This is a book
you want to carry under your arm, open to a random page, and find a
short gem to remind you that love is still worth writing about—that
ultimately, all poems are love poems to the world and to the word."
—Octavio Quintanilla, Southwestern American Literature
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